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Since in France the men of the Left are, with a few notable exceptions, relatively less experienced in Government and famed than the Poincares and Tardieus of the Centre, some contemptuous critics of the new Government called it "scarcely a Cabinet." Certain it was that ousted Tar dieu and colleagues would launch and continue one of the hottest fights in French parliamentary history in an effort to oust Briand's yesmanly Chautemps...
...country. Furthermore, Tardieu endangers the peace of France both at home and abroad. A certain French politician has said of him that he resembles a pig in his enjoyment of filth and dirt, and his very name lends itself to a play on words: 'Tardieu,' or 'dieu des tares,' meaning 'god of imperfections.' One of the deputies in the Chamber said to him publicly, 'There are certain individuals whose dishonesty is universally recognized but who remain unpunished. You. Mr. Tardieu, are the last man in the world who has any right to accuse...
...cars?" demanded Louis Renault, Dean of French motor makers, last week. "If foreign cars should come to dominate the French market, what a calamity! . . . To have lost a million and a half men in the war to escape German tutelage, only to fall under the tutelage of America! Mon Dieu that would be more than Frenchmen could bear! Tell these things to your readers-urge them to support the wise, the necessary law of M. Flandin." French reporters bowed and withdrew...
...have ever read. There is no depth, no irony, only a flat-chested humor of the most nasal resonnance. The diction throughout is based on the questionable philosophy that France is full of Frenchmen. Little Arlette, the dyer-kiss do-de-o-do (but I loof heem, ah mon Dieu how I loof heem). Jacques the melancholy boulevardier (you ave hask me eef I spik ze English?), and Mimi the cockeyed marmoset, are really but two-dimensional characters. They never really exist. With that amen of thankfulness, let us ask ourselves how, even in the greatness of the economic waste...